Occupy Phoenix | We Are The 99%
We are focused on creating a peaceful dialogue and working towards strengthening our community. We do not condone or encourage violence of any kind!
Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial District, and has spread to over 100 cities in the United States and actions in over 1,500 cities globally. Occupy Phoenix began in Cesar Chavez Plaza on October 15, 2011 – what we now call the Global Day of Change. #OccupyPhoenix stands in solidarity with #OWS. We are pushing back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest recession in generations. Simply put, Wall Street is holding the United States Government hostage and we would like to set them free so that WE, the 99%, can have a voice in our own country. The movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and aims to expose how the richest 1% of people are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that is foreclosing on our future.
The Occupy Movement is a horizontally organized resistance movement employing the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to restore democracy in America. We are focused on creating a peaceful dialogue and working towards strengthening our community. We do not condone or encourage violence of any kind! We use a tool known as a “people’s assembly” to facilitate collective decision making in an open, participatory and non-binding manner. We welcome people from all colors, genders and beliefs to attend our General Assemblies. Please check the Calendar to view our upcoming events.
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FYI, you video linked on this page now says it is private so it can’t be viewed.
February 15, 2012 at 2:13 pm.
If we are the 99%, how does Sheriff Arpaio get re-elected? Just saying…
January 21, 2012 at 9:40 am.
Thank you guys for coming into our store and for everything that you do specially with trying to get sherriff Joke Arpaio out of power, the Town of Guadalupe is definitely in need of getting rid of his presence, but I also think that we should look at the town council, they are the ones that voted him in, and the mayor of the town can’t make up her mind as to wether she likes him or not, I am a business owner in that town and we have been battling with the town on all of their shady deals and their neglect to hear what people need and want. Hopefully we can all make this state a lot better.
December 20, 2011 at 10:54 am.
If I knew how to do it, I would put the Buffale Springfield”s song “For what its worth” in here so I can’t. I can’t really think that Phx PD is really fear us or they are just asshole.
December 11, 2011 at 4:47 am.
I don’t know why you people want to change the US into a socialist state (because that’s really worked out well in the past). Capitalism is what’s making this country spin. Yea, it’s spinning slowly but it’s still spinning. Why is it that every time I go outside at work to have a smoke I have occupiers come over and offer to pay me for a cigarette, that is capitalism in the works. I refuse a cigarette to any occupier who offers to pay me for one for the sheer fact that they are standing against what they’re standing against. I offer a simple of reply of “you’re fueling capitalism in the process. If you really want to change this then I will trade you this cigarette for a good and/or service in return.” More than 1/2 of the people I give this rebuttal to have no idea what I’m talking about. How about you get your shit together, give yourself some knowledge and realize that the government isn’t the one who caused you to fall into debt. Sure, banks have sent you offers to amortize your loans, offer you credit, etc. YOU ARE THE ONES WHO ACCEPT TO DO SUCH THINGS. YOU are the ones spinning yourself into a deeper hole. Just because a bank is offering to raise your credit limits doesn’t mean you have to accept it. STOP LIVING OUTSIDE YOUR MEANS AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT YOU CAUSED ON YOURSELF.
- A person in the 99% who realizes they caused their own demise.
December 5, 2011 at 10:17 pm.
I tried to watch the video and it says that it is “private”
November 20, 2011 at 12:11 pm.
The YouTube video comes up saying “This video is private”
November 15, 2011 at 12:54 pm.
Has anyone talked to incoming Phoenix Mayor, Greg Stanton, to find out what his attitude will be to Occupy Phoenix. Any chance he will change the order about sleeping in the park. How about an agreement with the city, that those staying in the park overnight limit their numbers, post guards to watch acitivity in shifts, etc. It seems like there should be some way to get them to soften their stance on this.
November 12, 2011 at 11:40 am.
Ii think it is great we the people need to tell it like it is. I am a 60′s child and carried signs that changed the world, its good to see the torch being picked up. Lets get out there and change the world again.
PEACE
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November 8, 2011 at 7:02 pm.
The Zeitgeist Movement has no allegiance to a country or traditional political platforms. It views the world as a single system and the human species as a single family and recognizes that all countries must disarm and learn to share resources and ideas if we expect to survive in the long run. Hence, the solutions arrived at and promoted are in the interest to help everyone on the planet Earth, not a select group.
This “Resource-Based Economic Model” is about taking a direct technical approach to social management as opposed to a Monetary or even Political one. It is about updating the workings of society to the most advanced and proven methods Science has to offer, leaving behind the damaging consequences and limiting inhibitions which are generated by our current system of monetary exchange, profits, corporations and other structural and motivational components.
@XenitH_John
The Movement is loyal to a train of thought, not figures or institutions. In other words, the view held is that through the use of socially targeted research and tested understandings in Science and Technology, we are now able to logically arrive at societal applications which could be profoundly more effective in meeting the needs of the human population. In fact, so much so, that there is little reason to assume war, poverty, most crimes and many other money-based scarcity effects common in our current model cannot be resolved over time.
An inventory of the earths resources is necessary. TZM is a sustainability movement advocating a resource based economy as opposed to a monetary system. We live on a planet of finite resources. There is technology available right now to make anything we need WITHOUT using the many current resources like Rep Rap a 3D printer. There is no threat to “indigenous people” or anyone else in a resource based economic model.
TZM seeks to communicate a Train of Thought with regard to how understanding and applying Scientific Reasoning can improve human society with respect to public heath and societal sustainability. It seeks to generate an educated critical mass globally for the acceptance and implementation of this Train of Thought and hence the self-evident notions for social design that emerge from that logic.
November 8, 2011 at 6:39 pm.